In the 1970s you could graduate from college with a business degree without realizing that many people made their living by buying low and selling high, and not necessarily in that order. Business schools taught students how to run businesses that survived by producing real goods and services. School taught Main Street, not Wall Street.

According to Crunchbase, when Brad Reifler graduated from Bowdoin College in 1981, he quickly became a star trading at Refco. He wanted to go out on his own, however, so in 1982 he found Reifler Trading Corporation, which in 2000 he sold to Refco.

And in 1995 he founded Pali Capital, which eventually had 250 employees and offices around the world.

Last year in a review of the movie “Money Monster,” Brad Reifler expressed how that affected him. During a live broadcast of a TV show “Money Monster” (loosely based on a real-life show), a desperate man takes the show’s investment “guru” Lee Gates hostage. The kidnapper has been driven to this extreme because he lost all of his money on a Lee Gates stock tip that went bad.